A slum with 700 people living on the terrace of a multistorey Calcutta building
Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...
Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of ...
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Skills, not degrees, help Kenya's slum youth get ahead
Growing up in a Kenyan slum, Annastacia Mwende always loved cars but never thought of being a mechanic. She learned to love ...
Indian slums get cool roofs to beat the summer heat
In the informal settlements of India’s western Gujarat state, hundreds of roofs have been painted in a reflective, white ...
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Noida’s Water Crisis: Slum Residents Forced To Buy Drinking Water As Authorities Fail To Act
Noida and Greater Noida are grappling with a severe water crisis, leaving slum residents and high-rise societies alike struggling to secure potable water.
Three killed in Delhi slum fire; survivor recalls narrow escape
Three people lost their lives when a fire broke out in a slum in Delhi's Anand Vihar during the early hours of Tuesday, ...
Why Bombay HC has initiated a review of Maharashtra Slum Areas Act, 1971
In Mumbai, where real estate prices are among the highest in the country, slum redevelopment is often as much about profit as ...
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Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
"Traditionally, home is where people have come to find shelter and ... In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room ...